Easty wrote:Not sure what table your looking at as we sit in 5th 4 points behind Hull in 3rd. http://www.therfl.co.uk/matchday/league_tables That's the table after the first phase of the season. The top seven are now playing each other home and away. Most teams have now played fifteen games. The current table is in League Express this week.

Easty wrote:Not sure what table your looking at as we sit in 5th 4 points behind Hull in 3rd. http://www.therfl.co.uk/matchday/league_tables That's the table after the first phase of the season. The top seven are now playing each other home and away. Most teams have now played fifteen games. The current table is in League Express this week.

Why would they? Saints, Wigan & Leeds all bring through better quality & quantity from their academies then both FC & KR. Add in the fact that none of them share the same town with another SL club I can't imagine they will be made to merge.

Don't like the idea of this merger at all. The only positive for me is that we have all our players down to under 15s ringfenced for the next 4 years so won't be sharing them with KR. Read somewhere on here that the RFLs merged academy idea is going to be reviewed in 3 years, knowing the RFL they'll probably scrap the idea & come up with another crackpot idea so hopefully won't cause to much damage.

Wigan and Saints are only about 10 miles apart, not much more than the KC and the KCL.

And it's a racing certainty they'll be called Humberside

dundeeblackandwhite wrote:Do Catalan have an academy?. If so surely they would be 1 on its own. So that would leave 7 Or am I missing something where rfl want 8 on British soil and Catalan not included? Will have one from next season http://www.catalansdragons.com/en/artic ... demy-team/

dundeeblackandwhite wrote:Do Catalan have an academy?. If so surely they would be 1 on its own. So that would leave 7 Or am I missing something where rfl want 8 on British soil and Catalan not included? Will have one from next season http://www.catalansdragons.com/en/artic ... demy-team/

Blame McGuire. He planted the sead to Nige and Hudg.

Who is Nige, if you are going to try and be funny at least get the names right or you will end up looking at thick f$cker?

I'm still waiting for someone at the club to even begin to start persuading me how a merger of Hull and KR academies will produce these 'marquee' players that the current set up has failed with. So far I've been told by Pearson, Tony et al that it will do that - but not really any list of valid reasons how that will happen as a result. Just saying that we can 'pool resources' doesn't persuade me of anything.

I've heard that a well known fast food chain are prepared to sponsor the new merged team if they change the name to Hull KFC